A month after, missing Nigerian student, Promise Chukwudum found dead in Canada

Promise Chukwudum, a student at the University of Regina, in Saskatchewan, Canada, has been found dead more than a month after he was declared missing.
The Police found his corpse in a creek area behind the Shell gas station on the corner of Sherwood Drive and McIntosh Street, at about 4:45 p.m. on December 21, 2018.The 19-year-old Computer Science student and rugby player went missing in the early hours of November 17 – the police said there was no indication Chukwudum’s death was a result of criminal act.


The Regina Police Service and the Saskatchewan Coroners Service are conducting a death investigation to fully understand the circumstances of his death.

As of Dec. 10, police said they had to consider the possibility that he may have sought shelter somewhere from the cold, because the night he disappeared, the temperatures dipped below -20 C.